TDTVS

Daper Draper

Last night was the premier episode of Season 4 of TDTVS2 and we here at the Bogardus household spent the weekend prepping for the event. On Saturday we watched episodes 1 & 3 of season three and then on Sunday we watched episodes 6, 9 & 13.

At the appointed hour of the premier, 10:00 EDT, we went to bed.

Got up this morning, started downloading the torrent and left for work. Came home from work and had dinner in front of the TV.

At the end of last year they were running their new agency, created from the ashes of Sterling Cooper, out of a hotel room. this season starts several months later and they now have a floor in the Time/Life building (and telling clients they have two) with a conference room full of mismatched office chairs in a circle around a non existent table.

The episode seemed jumbled and out of sorts and just maybe that was an intentional tone set by the producer because it perfectly represented Don Draper’s life, both personally and professionally.

Now after an hour of digesting the show I’m beginning to appreciate it. It started out with Don being interviewed by an advertising magazine which he does it reluctantly and it shows in the published piece. They want him to do another interview, this time with the Wall Street Journal, but he is uncomfortable and begs off. For the next 30 minutes negative things happen all around him, and to him, until he blows his top at a client and is so mad he boots them out the door. This flips a switch making him realize that he needs to turn his act around, so he agrees to the WSJ interview. The last scene of the show is him talking to the Journal reporter and he is the charming, engaging Don Draper we all love and want to be.

Can’t wait until next week.

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Decimal Steps

Summer is here in Aiken, SC. This weekend the temperatures were supposed to hit the upper 90s, maybe even break the century mark, so earlier in last week Donna and I planned a weekend getaway into the state’s northwest corner where it is mountainous and cooler, plus we could finish up those final 2 counties and 3 DeLorme pages for those geocaching challenges.

As the weekend approached, like all good sailors, we kept a weather eye out on what was in store for northwestern South Carolina. It looked like there was not much relief to be had up there, maybe 4 or 5 degrees cooler with just as much a chance of afternoon showers, so on Friday afternoon we decided to save the couple hundred bucks (and I’d forgo having cinnamon buns for breakfast) by staying home.

Saturday morning we went for a bike ride and grocery shopped returning home by 9:00AM and not leaving the house again except for my trip to the mailbox to pick up the latest Red Envelope full of Law & Order: Season 1. Amazing who has popped up so far in guest starring roles; Samuel L. Jackson in a brief bit as a defense attorney, Philip Seymour Hoffman in his first credited role as an accused rapist, the future Lt. Van Buren, S. Epatha Merkerson, as a mother of a mistakenly shot child and TDTVS’s Harold Perrineau as a young drug dealer.

Sunday we stayed outside a little later, through lunchtime (although the top was up for the last couple of hours) doing some geocaching. We headed over to North Augusta to search for some on the Greenway, an old abandoned railway bed now paved over into a biking/walking trail. We started at one end and after we found one right near the beginning, we were quickly distracted by a cache down by the river, which led to a couple in a new park around some old ponds, which then again led to a new section of the Greenway which parallels real close to the Savannah River and we never really made it to the actual Greenway Greenway.

With our t-shirts soaked with sweat, looking like Jack & Kate after a trip into the island jungle, we called it quits and headed back to the car with 8 finds. Realizing that put us at 458 total Donna said we need two more to make it an “even” four hundred and sixty. We snagged one in a small park outside the Greenway entrance that we had DNF?d a couple of weeks ago then another in a park that we have passed a hundred times and never been in. When I got home and logged that last one I noticed that there was a second one in that park as well. Good thing we didn’t realized that at the time, because if we found it, we probably would have had to find 9 more to make the total even again?

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Yo Saf Bridge Returns To Space

After a stint as a con woman that was a pain in the side of the crew of the Firefly a couple of times in the early 26th century and recently seen stuck on Madison Ave, Earth in the middle 20th century on TDTVS2, Christina Hendricks returns to the ‘Verse sometime in the far future where space travel costs an arm and a leg, literally, as an android in a music video from Broken Bells.

The Emperor got a well deserved bath after work today.

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108 Thousand Button Pushes

One hundred and eight was sort of an adjunct to TDTVS’s famous numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) because that is what they added up to and that is how many minutes you had between entering them into a computer terminal before bad things happened. 108,000 is probably how many times the number and execute buttons were pushed by Desmond during his little over three years down in the Swan Station hatch when he was doing the entering.

I wonder what I should do with my eight LOST links in the left sidebar now that the show is over, delete them? Yeah, probably. So what would be a proper mourning period before moving them? Simple, 108 days. Guess I’ll add a countdown for it…

One hundred and eight thousand is the number of miles the Emperor had traveled when we got almost to work this morning.

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Lipid Panel

I must have missed one of these cholesterol updates because the last one I can find is dated December 15, 2008…

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30-150
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

Turned on ABC at 9:00PM and Dancing with the Stars was on, hey, where’s TDTVS? Oh, yeah, that’s right, it’s over.

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The End

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I’ll never look into your eyes…again
Jim Morrison

It all comes to an end tonight at 11:30PM and quite frankly I think I will be glad it is over. What started as a survival story on a mysterious island has morphed into a battle between good and evil to control the island that no one can find.

Millions of people want answers to the thousands of unanswered questions and mysteries, but I for one don’t care if I find out what happened to Rose, Bernard and Vincent the dog or any of the others.

How will it end? Will we merge the the island time lines with the alt LA universe? My guess is it will be a variation of the first scene of last season’s finale; Jack (the new Jacob) will be sitting on the beach and John Locke (the new MIB) will approach and say, “You know how much I want to kill you?” They will stare out to sea and see a boat approaching. Locke will ask Jack, “You brought them here didn’t you?” The camera zooms in until you see the transom. It reads, “S.S.Minnow” Fade to black.

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Inside on a Beautiful Day

It was spent mostly watching Life. We had disc three of season two from Netflix to watch and did. Then got antsy and didn’t want to wait for the last two discs to come in the mail, so off to the back alleys of the internet. I downloaded the four episodes that are on disc 4 while we watched the other red envelope disc, Michael Clayton (which after watching the four simplistic 42 minute TV shows was hard to follow because you had to pay attention, but if you did you were rewarded.) We then watched those four downloaded episodes of Life. The next thing we knew it is past 8:00 PM with the sun is going down.

The last 5 episodes of the short lived show are being torrented as we speak, but those won’t get watched until tomorrow afternoon or night though. We are off to do some geocaching in the morning and possibly see an early showing of IM2.

My last post chronicled all the TV I’ve been watching, well that is about to come to an end, literally and figuratively. Monday is the season-enders for House and Castle. Flashforward didn’t get renewed for next year, so I probably won’t even bother watching how many ever new episodes of that are left. There are only 2 more episodes of Law & Order (the Mothership version) ever. It ends its 20 year run the day after TDTVS finishes its 6 year ride on the 23rd of May. That leaves just a month and a half left of new of L&O:Criminal Intent (although I really miss Goren and Eames) and In Plain Sight to see on USA.

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